Topic: The Word of God

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What was the significance of Moses striking the rock twice instead of speaking to it?

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Following [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] that was a woman, female trouble, wouldn’t leave her in the meeting. I don’t know why. Richard T. Reed, Reverend Richard T. Reed, the blessed old Bible Hour Tabernacle at Jonesboro, Arkansas, was the one who baptized them into the church, the next morning; you migh...

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What did the brass serpent in the wilderness represent?

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Now, closely, I want you to notice this. God shouldn’t have to have this, but He’s always had to have it, seemingly, some object that people could look to, some object like the brass serpent. Now, they should not have had that, they should’ve believed God. But for a memorial, that there’d been an at...

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Does knowing the Bible well do a person any good if the Word has not been quickened to them?

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Now, in here, His written Word. And…[Blank spot on tape—Ed.]…bring forth of its kind if you’ll just receive It in your heart and believe It. You can’t…you might read the Word and be such a scholar till you know all the—the ins and outs of the Word, but that will never do no…you no good until It firs...

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What does Boaz redeeming Naomi and gaining Ruth show about Christ?

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He’s our Kinsman Redeemer. Isn’t that right? God was manifested in the flesh to take our place, to be a Kinsman to us. As in the Book of Ruth, and Exodus, and so forth, how it preaches, teaches there of how that we become kinsmen to God, and God came down and dwelt in His Son, Christ Jesus, became K...

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Did Jesus use His own power to answer Satan when He was tempted?

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Now, He had all those fine gifts at His command, but when Satan found Him, He didn’t use those gifts. When Satan said, “If thou be the Son of God, change these stones to bread. Turn them into bread and eat, for you’re hungry.” He said, “It is written!” And he taken Him up on the pinnacle of the temp...

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How does God's leading of Israel relate to what He is doing for the Church today?

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I believe that all of the old things was a type of the new to come. What Israel was in the natural, we are in the spiritual. God leading Israel naturally, was what He’s doing for us spiritually today. We’re all very familiar with this Scripture that I’ve just read. And we’re going to try to set fort...

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How is the Holy Spirit like the fire in the burning bush?

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All right. Notice now, that…Then when God spoke to him, attracted his attention by a Pillar of Fire that fell into a bush and begin to burn and pop, and burn. Now, looks like if it was fire, it would’ve scorched the bush or burned it. But it was a supernatural Fire Who could burn the bush, and yet i...

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Does God bring things to pass the way people have mapped them out?

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People have their own beliefs drawed out today what they think that they’re going to be, and the way it’s going to be. It’ll come just as according to that, or they won’t believe it. And that’s the reason they have their way. They thought the way Jesus was coming first…They had it all mapped out. He...

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Why do we now speak to the Rock instead of smiting it?

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And the rod that Moses had in his hand, it was not the rod of Moses, it was the rod of God: God’s judgment rod. Moses held it out over Egypt and flies came up. He held it out and fleas came up. Wherever he dumped this rod, it was a judgment rod. It brought judgment upon a disobedient people. And the...

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How is the church today like the Israelites who complained after leaving Egypt?

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Maybe some of those poor Israelites…They left garlic and onions to eat Angel’s food, and was complaining about it. They had left the muddy waters of Egypt to drink from the fountain of life, and were complaining about it. They had led—left the boasting physicians of Egypt to be with the great Physic...

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What was the old custom of tearing a contract in two over a slain beast?

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In the old days, when a contract was made, you know what they did? Notice. God just telling me to say this, I don’t know. A person would go and write a—a contract on a piece of paper. They’d write the contract. And then on the contract, they’d write what it was they was going to do, then they’d tear...

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Does the Bible contradict itself?

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Now, in Saint James the 3rd chap—the 2nd chapter and the 21st verse. This would almost look like a contradiction in the Scriptures. But there is no contradictions in the Scripture. You know, the…You heard people say that Scripture contradicts Itself. It does not. For ten years, there was a challenge...

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Why was Moses told to speak to the rock instead of striking it a second time?

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Now, remember, Divine gifts can easily get a person into trouble. That God, if He finds someone that He figures that He can entrust a Divine gift with, we should reverence with all of our hearts… Now, you remember, how many believes Moses was a Divine gifted prophet of God? He was. Everyone believes...

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How is the Body of Christ like Solomon's temple?

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Now, one of these days the Body’s going to come together just like that. That’s right. Just like Solomon’s temple, cut out all over the world. But when it come together, there wasn’t a buzz of a saw or a sound of a hammer. It went right straight together. Every mis-fit cube went right to its right p...

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Why did Jesus answer Satan with 'It is written' instead of using His own power?

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Jesus had all the fine qualities of God in Him. Do you believe it? He had powers upon powers, but when He met Satan, He never used His power, He give an example for the weakest of Christians. When He met Satan, He said, “It is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that procee...

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What was God's first Bible, according to Brother Branham?

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What’s He doing? Writing His first Bible. Notice, the human beings once looked towards the heavens. And He puts all the stars in the heavens, the zodiac, starting off with the Virgin, ending up with Leo the Lion. First coming of Christ, the second coming. Came by the Virgin, come again as the Lion o...

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Is it right to argue or debate over the Word of God?

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But don’t never argue with people. You just stand still and let God do the arguing. I wouldn’t argue, wouldn’t debate with no one. I don’t believe in it in the first place. I can only state what’s truth. If you want to believe it, all right. If you do not, there’ll be others who will believe it. Isn...

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How is the Word of God like a seed?

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Now, many times…Now, these may seem strange. Everybody be real reverent. If you can get the person…Just what I was trying to do to the woman, was get her in the right mental attitude; she wouldn’t have to be prayed for. The right mental attitude towards any promise of God will bring it to pass. Do y...

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What does the Holy Spirit feed on?

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Great men from Adam on down had looked for the woman’s Seed to come and bruise the serpent’s head. They’d looked for the Christ for four thousand years. That’s right, people; you know that. But here, an old man, old in age, said, “I’m not going to die until I see the Christ, for the Holy Spirit told...

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How does the old custom of tearing a covenant in two apply to God's covenant with the Church?

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Them days, when they made a covenant, they would take a lamb or a beast. They’d write a covenant out, two men between them. They would write it out what it was. And then they would kill a beast. And over this beast, they would tear this thing in two. One man would take one part and one the other. An...